One of the most disturbing strategies union officials employ to gain new members is the anti-corporate campaign, which essentially smears a company’s reputation. The idea is to apply enough pressure to make the company cave and hand over its employees to the union. A common tactic in these campaigns is to have a small group of employees complain about working conditions to make the company look bad.

That’s what’s been going on in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Down there UFCW officials are doing anything they can to organize employees of Smithfield (except allow employees to vote in a secret ballot election). So it’s notable that some recent — and serious — charges against the company by union activists have been shown to be B.S. The AP reports: